[Intro - intimate, piano, whispered] The tide came back different Carrying my name Wearing a stranger's face [Verse 1 - restrained, atmospheric] I walked through the ashes Counting what remained A kingdom built from echoes And weathered windowpanes The wires still remember The shape of every prayer But silence fills the spaces Where you used to appear [Pre-Chorus - building tension] And all this time I thought the flood was punishment Now I see It was the river changing course [Chorus - soaring, emotional] I am the emergence The creature from the deep The thing they buried living That refused to stay asleep I am the horizon After the collapse A constellation forming In the fractures of the map [Instrumental - synth swell, trap percussion enters] [Verse 2 - confident, pulsing] The old skin split behind me Like bark beneath the spring Every scar became a compass Every wound a set of wings The ghosts still call my number Still knocking at the frame But I don't live inside that house I don't answer to that name [Pre-Drop - filtered, rising] Let it fall Let it break Let the water take it all [Drop - massive, djent and trap] I WAS NEVER DROWING I WAS LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE EVERY DOOR THEY CLOSED BECAME A PATH BENEATH MY FEET I WAS NEVER BROKEN ONLY SHEDDING WHAT I KNEW THE GRAVE BECAME A GARDEN WHEN I FINALLY GREW [Bridge - half-time, spacious] The stars are rearranging The sky is pulling through Every ending left a doorway Every doorway led me here [Final Chorus - biggest section] I am the emergence The answer in the wake The shape beneath the surface That the water couldn't take I am the horizon The fire after rain The thing that kept on rising Every time they spoke my name [Outro - saxophone, warm, reflective] No more drowning No more disguise Only the current Only the rise [End]
